On JUNE 8, 1845, "Old Hickory" died.

Slashed by a sword as a boy for not polishing a British soldiers boots during the Revolutionary War, his mother died of cholera caring for American prisoners.

He later fought the Seminole Indians and, in the War of 1812, defeated the British in New Orleans.



He was governor of the Florida Territory, and is credited with proposing the name "Tennessee" at that State's first convention.



His name was Andrew Jackson.

Fighting in duels, most notably to defend his wife's honor, he carried bullet fragments in his body. He survived assassination attempts.



His wife Rachel died just three months before he took office as the 7th U.S. President.

Andrew Jackson stated in his 2nd Inaugural:

"It is my fervent prayer to that Almighty Being before whom I now stand, and who has kept us in His hands from the infancy of our Republic to the present day...that He will...inspire the hearts of my fellow-citizens that we may be preserved from danger."



On December 30, 1836, Andrew Jackson wrote to his nephew, Colonel Andrew Jackson Donelson, upon the death of his wife, Emily, who had served as the unofficial First Lady of the United States:

"We cannot recall her, we are commanded by our dear Saviour, not to mourn for the dead, but for the living...

She has changed a world of woe for a world of eternal happiness, and we ought to prepare as we too must follow...'The Lord's will be done on earth as it is in heaven.'"



Considered the founder of the modern Democrat Party, Jackson was criticized for his role in the Indian Removal Act, but praised for ending the corrupt Bank of the United States and paying off the national debt, the only time in U.S. history that was done.

Of the Bible, Andrew Jackson stated:

"That book, Sir, is the Rock upon which our republic rests."

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